Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid Demonstration Program Vehicle 002. The 2010 Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid vehicle (PHV) made its North American debut at the Los Angeles Auto Show. Toyota, at the Bloomberg Cars & Fuels conference 1 Dec. Tags: Hybrids Plug-ins. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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Revenge of the Electric Car

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

City Council Member, held a press conference demanding General Motors apologize to the American people for destroying the automaker’s EV1 plug-in electric vehicle. Former EV1 driver Doug Korthof's 2002 Toyota RAV4-EV. Los Angeles City Council, ret. Friday November 14th, 2008 - GM Training Center - Burbank, CA.

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EV1 Congress General Motors GM 140

Creative Greenius

JANUARY 17, 2009

Another of my favorite people on the Southern California environmental scene is State Senator Fran Pavley who also spoke at the press conference. It’s going to change the world of our Los Angeles and Long Beach ports. Toyota keeps talking about making a plug-in but don’t hold your breath till they bring it to market.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

The morning session started out with an hour long press conference, the highlight being the unveiling of the Volt’s 230 mpg preliminary EPA city fuel economy finding ( earlier post ), as well as a tour showing selected elements from the studios of the four GM North American brands: Chevrolet, GMC, Buick and Cadillac. Click to enlarge.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 11, 2009

Howard’s team is holding a conference on June 24th for city managers throughout the county that I’ll be attending. To put that in perspective for you, if Los Angeles County were a state, it would rank ninth in population behind the states of California, New York, Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, and Michigan.

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Solar Energy Power Powered 170

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Saab GM-owned company exploring PHEVs Joint Venture with Volvo and others to research PHEVs Toyota 500 PHEV 2010-model Priuses with lithium batteries to be leased for fleet tests in 2009 (150 in U.S.) This was starting to hurt because it was one reason for a sudden surge in Toyotas market share." Never discount Toyota.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

GM will leapfrog Toyota and Honda by providing an electric car to the masses by the end of next year. If the EV1 was viable (or even close) we would see Ford, Toyota, Honda, etc all with 80 mile cars right now.do Think of driving any vehicle in the hot Los Angeles summer time. Sorry the market killed the EV1.

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